HeyJaredThis Week in Video Game History
I'm just a guy combining his life-long love of video games with his love of history! Join me as we go down memory lane and talk about some of the greatest moments in Video Game history that happened during the week!
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9-9-99 — How One Date Crowned Sony and Buried Sega | TWIVGH Ep 34 (opens the original)
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We're covering September 7th–13th — maybe the most stacked week on the calendar — anchored by a date the industry keeps circling to change everything: the ninth of September. The PlayStation launch, Crash Bandicoot, Spyro, the Dreamcast's 9-9-99 debut with Soul Calibur, and Destiny's half-billion-dollar day all landed on it. Plus Mortal Monday's bloody arrival, Final Fantasy VII's jump from Nintendo to Sony, and Insomniac's Marvel's Spider-Man. Two deep dives: how the ninth crowned Sony and buri
Where It All Began | TWIVGH Ep 33 (Aug 31 – Sep 6) (opens the original)
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We're covering August 31st – September 6th by running the whole arc of the medium in one week — from the Magnavox Odyssey, the first home console ever sold, to Bethesda's thousand-planet Starfield. Along the way: our month-level rundown (Wizardry, the Sega Master System, Out Run, the TurboGrafx-16, the Atari Lynx, and Civilization), plus the brutal Ghosts 'n Goblins, the industry-rewiring Jetpack Joyride, a stacked week in 2013 (Outlast, Diablo III on console, Total War: Rome II), and Hideo Koji
The Week the Medium Grew Up | TWIVGH Ep. 32 (Aug 24-30) (opens the original)
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We're covering August 24th–30th by walking straight through time, 1982 to 2022, watching the medium grow up: Richard Garriott's Ultima II, the cult classic EarthBound, the console-shooter landmark GoldenEye 007, the GTA challenger Saints Row, the rulebook-tearing Guild Wars 2, the beloved flop The Wonderful 101, and the FMV revival Immortality. Plus three deep dives: the evolution of the RPG, how the shooter came home, and the death and resurrection of full-motion video. Be sure to save your gam
The One Day THREE Consoles Got a Blockbuster | This Week in Video Game History Ep. 31 (opens the original)
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August 17th–23rd might be the most stacked seven days on the gaming calendar. This week: the most controversial Metroid ever made, a Sonic collection hiding a secret 3D playground, and Black Myth: Wukong breaking records worldwide. Then the single Tuesday in 2001 that dropped three heavy hitters at once — Arcanum from the creators of Fallout, Armored Core 2 from a pre-Souls FromSoftware, and a fishing game on the already-dead Dreamcast. Plus Deus Ex: Human Revolution's cyberpunk comeback, the da
SHODAN, Survival Horror & the Game That Vanished for 7 Years | TWIVGH Ep. 30 (opens the original)
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This week in video game history covers August 10th through the 16th — a week soaked in dread, disappearance, and second chances. On August 11th, 1999, System Shock 2 introduced a generation of designers to genuine fear in the form of SHODAN, one of gaming's greatest villains, and laid down the immersive-sim blueprint that BioShock would later build on. It shares that exact date with the birthday of Shinji Mikami, the man who coined "survival horror" — the anchor of our first deep dive, which run
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